Software Engineer 3, Atlas Search Systems

MongoDB MongoDB · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · PTO Atlas Search

Software Engineer 3, Atlas Search Systems at MongoDB. This role focuses on building and maintaining the instances and supporting infrastructure for Atlas Search, a multi-cloud service that enables complex full-text and vector search queries. The position involves contributing to the design, implementation, and support of projects to improve scalability and ensure a seamless experience for large workloads. The role emphasizes distributed systems, backend software development, and public cloud platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the design, implementation, and support of projects that improve the scalability of Atlas Search to make using it a seamless experience for even the largest workloads
  2. Work with a collaborative team that prioritizes sound technical decision-making and building systems that our customers love and that we are proud of as engineers
  3. Have the opportunity to lead projects and own subsystems
  4. Provide input on the team’s roadmap and help determine the architecture of our system

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining industrial-strength backend software and automation in complex codebases
  • Experience developing distributed systems and multithreaded applications
  • Familiarity with public cloud platforms, distributed infrastructure, and metric-based development
  • Experience with at least one modern statically typed programming language, and interest in working with Java
  • Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and enthusiasm for collaborating closely with colleagues
  • A strong sense of ownership over their work, from initial design all the way through maintaining code in production

Nice to have

  • growth mindset and the desire to learn quickly through taking on challenges, reflecting on outcomes, and incorporating feedback

What the JD emphasized

  • industrial-strength backend software
  • distributed systems
  • multithreaded applications
  • public cloud platforms
  • distributed infrastructure